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War of the WorldsManuel Brito

“... A general persuasion that through all the deep of space, no life existed beyond the petty surface of our minute sphere. Now we see further. Dim and wonderful is the vision I have conjured up in my mind of life spreading slowly from this little seedbed of the solar system throughout the inanimate vastness of sidereal space. Strange when i recall the time when I first saw it bright, clean cut, hard, and silent, under the dawn of that last... great day.”

Animation, 2018, Portugal, 14’Script: Adaptation of Orson Welles’ adaptation of the H. G. Welles novel “War of the Worlds” by Manuel BritoSound: Manuel BritoEditing: Manuel BritoProduction: Manuel Brito

Bio-filmographyManuel Brito was born in Santarém where he lives and works. In 2014 finished his bachelor in Music (Jazz upright bass) at ESMAE. Self taught filmmaker, in 2015 his debut low budget science fiction movie “Retorno” was selected to the International Horror Film Festival MOTELX. He is currently working on several independent projects such as the adaptation of Henrik Ibsen “Doll House” for stage and screen.

[2018] War of the Worlds (short); [2015] Retorno (short)

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Self Destructive BoysAndré Santos, Marco Leão

Self Destructive Boys is a direct stare into masculine interaction as we follow three boys in their mid-twenties, António, Xavier and Miguel testing the limits of their sexual flexibility. This film is built on an edge: the ambiguity of human relationships. Boys will always be boys.

Fiction, 2018, Portugal, 27’ Script: André Santos, Marco LeãoCinematography: Hugo AzevedoSound: Bruno Moreira, Pedro GóisEditing: Francisco MoreiraProduction: BlackmariaCast: João Mota, João Veloso, Miguel Cunha, Nuno Nolasco, Victor Gonçalves

Bio-filmography(1984, Lisbon) Between 2008 and 2018, André and Marco, have developed six short-films that have been screened in several film festivals worldwide.Their short-film Bad Blood was doubly awarded at IndieLisboa (2013) and won Best Short Film Screenplay at L’Alternativa de Barcelona (2013). Driving Lesson was distinguished with a Special Mention for Best Short Film at Festival du Nouveau Cinéma (2015). Pedro recently won Best Queer Short at the Provincetown International Film Festival (2017). Currently they are writing their first fiction feature film - Nowhere -

one of the projects chosen for the 2017 Faliro House | Sundance Mediterranean Screenwriters Workshop and also one of the projects selected to the MIA | Cinema Co-Production Market in Rome.Simultaneously they’re developing a feature experimental documentary, set in Aokigahara forest in Japan, under the support of the Portuguese Film Institute - project selected for Doc Station 2018 at the Berlinale Talents.Porto/Post/Doc held the first full retrospective of their work on its 2017 edition. Their latest film Pedro was the first Portuguese short film to be part of the International Narrative Short Films competition of 2017 Sundance Film Festival.

[2018] Self Destructive Boys (short); [2016] Pedro (short); [2015] Aula de Condução (short); [2013] Má Raça (short); [2011] Infinito (short); [2010] Cavalos Selgavens (short); [2008] A Nossa Necessidade de Consolo (short)

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AnjoYou See the Moon Miguel Nunes

Lisbon, after another blistering summer, Miguel finds himself in a deep jadedness. When an improvised party erupts at his apartment awakening the memory of a passion.

Fiction, 2018, Portugal, 24’Script: Miguel Nunes, Francisco Mira GodinhoCinematography: Manel Pinho BragaSound: Bruno GarcezEditing: Bruno de Freitas LealProduction: Francisco Mira Godinho / VideolotionCast: Miguel Nunes, Edgar Morais, Joana Verona, Erica Prince, Beatriz Godinho, Lucília Raimundo, Miguel Raposo, César Gomes, Ana Vilela da Costa, Luke Eberl, João Pedro Mamede, Isabel Costa, Saidu

Bio-filmographyStarted his career as an actor at the early age of 12 in a TV series. During his younger years, Miguel worked with several directors such as João Pedro Rodrigues, João Botelho, Margarida

Gil, Leonardo Mouramateus, Mónica Lima, Miguel Moraes Cabral and Mavi Phillips. Graduated in 2012 with an MFA in Theatre from the Lisbon Theatre and Film School (ESTC). Won Best Young Actor Award at Lisbon and Estoril Film Festival in 2011 with the feature film Cisne directed by Teresa Villaverde.In 2016, Miguel leads the cast of Cartas da Guerra by Ivo Ferreira - acclaimed by international critics as one of the most powerfull movies about war in recent years. He’s also leading the cast of TV series Dentro and Madre Paula for the public TV channel RTP1. 2018 sets his debut in directing with the short film Anjo.

[2018] Anjo (short)

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Amor, Avenidas NovasDuarte Coimbra

Lisbon, 2017. Manel is twenty years old, lives on Avenida Almirante Reis and idealizes love inspired by the relationship of his parents. Out of compassion, he hands over his double mattress to Nicolau and his girlfriend, who returned to Lisbon. Manel is alone with the mattress that he exchanged with his friends and on his way back home when he invades a film set, with a team entirely composed by girls. One of them, Rita, a beautiful production intern who helps with the mattress. They talk. This encounter has a profound effect on Manel who goes home to reconsider his life sinking into a magical feeling of passion.

Fiction, 2018, Portugal, 20’Script: Duarte Coimbra, Luís Miranda, Pedro RamalheteCinematography: Miguel BarbosaSound: Vera LopesEditing: Bruno de Freitas Leal, Inês Petiz VianaProduction: Pedro Ramalhete / Lisbon Theatre and Film School (ESTC)Cast: Manuel Lourenço, Beatriz Luís, Marcelo Tavares, Carolina Caramujo, Nena Coimbra

Bio-filmographyBorn in Lisbon, in the year 1996, Duarte Coimbra sought a formation near the cinema; from the graduation at the Escola Artística António Arroio to the degree in Directing in Cinema at Lisbon Theatre and Film School (ESTC), that

ended in 2017. The three years in this course served to enrich his knowledge and to draw a path that becomes each time more unequivocal: a dreamer of the pop romance as an universal law. In Cinema, he was production assistant for the film O Meu Pijama (2017) by Maria Inês Gonçalves - selected for IndieLisboa 17’ (Novíssimos) and was the second assistant director in the film A Barriga de Mariana (2018). In 2017 he directed the music videos for the songs: Boa Companhia, by Luís Severo and Rita, by Primeira Dama. He was, that same year, Jury of the International Film Students Meeting competition at the San Sebastián International Film Festival 17 ‘.

[2018] Amor, Avenidas Novas (short) - school film

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Tristeza e Alegria na Vida das GirafasSadness and Joy in the Life of GiraffesTiago Guedes

Sadness and Joy in the Life of Giraffes addresses the theme of absence and of the pain of growth in an unusual (adj. which is not vulgar, rare) way. It tells us the story of a girl (s.f. 1. a female child; 2. a very young single woman) who, in order to solve a problem, decides to look for the only person she believes that can help her: the prime minister. The economic crisis, a teddy bear with suicidal tendencies named Judy Garland, the Discovery Channel, a black panther and the Russian playwright or Bulgarian scientist Anton Tchekhov are all part of this heroic adventure (sf 1. extraordinary journey, 2. unexpected event that comes and deserves to be reported, 3. chance).

Fiction, 2019, Portugal, 110’Script: Tiago Rodrigues, Tiago GuedesCinematography: João Lança MoraisSound: António Porém Pires, Tiago MatosEditing: Tiago Guedes, Jerónimo RochaProduction: Frederico Serra / Take it EasyCast: Maria Abreu, Tonan Quito, Miguel Borges

Bio-filmographyTiago Guedes born in Porto, Portugal, in 1971. Graduated from the Fernando Pessoa University in Publicity, studied cinema at the New York Film Academy (1997/1998) and in the Raindance of London (1999). He works as director, scriptwriter and theatre director. His first feature was the TV Film Alta

Fidelidade (2000). His first theatrical feature was Coisa Ruim (2006) and later he directed the TV series Odisseia (2013) broadcasted in prime time at RTP1.

[2019] Tristeza e Alegria na Vida das Girafas; [2014] Coro dos Amantes (short); [2013] Odisseia (series); [2010] Noite Sangrenta (mini-series co-directed with Frederico Serra; [2008] Entre os dedos (co-directed with Frederico Serra); [2006] Coisa Ruim (co-directed with Frederico Serra); [2003] O meu Sósia e Eu (tv film); [2001] Cavaleiros de água doce (tv film); [2001] Acordar (short co-directed with Frederico Serra); [2000] Alta Fidelidade (tv film do-directed with Frederico Serra); [1998] O Ralo (short co-directed with Frederico Serra)

Infância, Adolescência, JuventudeChildhood, Boyhood, YouthRúben Gonçalves

A group of kids dream about becoming dancers, and enter a school in which, as the years go by and they grow older, their passion and skill for dance will be put to test. Set in the National Conservatory Dance School, in Lisbon, the film deals with three movements: entering the school and their first lessons; the end of the 9th grade, when the students have to make a decision; and the end of the learning process, when they leave the school and discover the stage.

Documentary, 2018, Portugal, 96’Script: Rúben GonçalvesCinematography: Ana MarizSound: Joana Niza BragaEditing: Margarida MenesesProduction: Fernando Vendrell / David & GoliasCast: Inês Lourenço, Márcio Mota, Mariana Vendrell, Miguel Pinheiro, Teresa Dias, António Filipe, Frank Anderson, Gabriel Fratian, Gabriela Cogumbreiro, Hiroko Nishikawa, Liliana Mendonça, Luísa Vendrell, Pedro Carneiro, Pedro Mateus, Sandra Correia

Bio-filmographyGraduated from Lisbon Theatre and Film School (ESTC) in screenwriting, works

as screenwriter, director and editor. Rúben edited Visit by Rui Esperança (Doclisboa 2015, Verdes Anos), Vigil by Ana Mariz (IndieLisboa 2016, Novíssimos) and Wicked Summer by Pedro Cabeleira premiered in the 70th Locarno Film Festival. Rúben collaborated in the writing of Three Women (TV series, David & Golias production). Childhood, Boyhood, Youth, a documentary about the The National Conservatory Dance School, is his first film as a director, and he’s working on the screenplay of the feature Sentimental Education.

[2018] Infância, Adolescência, Juventude

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SacavémJúlio Alves

Sacavém is a journey through Pedro Costa’s films focused on his work on Casa de Lava, Ossos, In Vanda’s Room, Colossal Youth and Horse Money. Built on the visual and sound landscape of Pedro Costa’s films and accompanied by his owns reflections on the matter, Sacavém serves the audience has a window on how Costa’s cinema is felt and conceived.

Documentary, 2019, Portugal, 65’Script: Júlio AlvesCinematography: Miguel SaraivaSound: João AlvesEditing: Hugo LeitãoProduction: Júlio Alves / Midnight ExpressCast: Pedro Costa

Bio-filmographyBorn in Lisbon in 1971, Júlio Alves began working within the film industry at an early age. He began his well-established career working as an Assistant Director and Assistant Producer for several Portuguese, French and Spanish feature films and telefilms. Júlio then began directing his own short films in genres such as fiction, animation and documentary. Apart from his short documentaries, he has also directed

four feature length documentaries. His works have been nominated at many national and international festivals and have also received numerous awards. Since 2000, Júlio has expanded his portfolio in directing advertising films for large Portuguese and Spanish brands. He has his Master’s degree in Film Studies and is currently working on his Doctorate in Communication Sciences.

[2019] Sacavém; [2018] Casa Encantada (short); [2018] Objectos Entre Nós (short); [2013] Casa Manuel Vieira (short); [2012] O Regresso; [2012] A Casa; [2010] 42,195 km (short); [2010] O Jogo (short); [2007] Ossudo (short); [2000] Alferes (short); [1996] O Despertador (short); [1995] A Fachada (short)

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O Mar Enrola na AreiaThe Hissing of Summer SandsCatarina Mourão

“The whistle man” was a typical character of the portuguese sea-side during the Fascist Portugal. His story has so many versions that he has become a myth: a poor crazy man who lost his baby girl, a professional homeless who lived from the charity of rich families, a pedofile or a summer father Christmas. His whistle announced his arrival and attracted boys and girls or made them run away. Last year I found 30 seconds of footage of this man which until then was just a memory. Is he more real now?

Fiction, Documentary, 2019, Portugal, 15’Script: Catarina MourãoCinematography: Paulo MenezesSound: Armanda CarvalhoEditing: Pedro Mateus DuarteProduction: Laranja Azul

Bio-filmographyCatarina Mourão studied Music, Law and Film (MA Bristol University; PhD University of Edinburgh). In 1998 she founded Apordoc, Portuguese Documentary Association. Since 1998 she has been teaching Film and Documentary in many BA and MA courses. With Catarina Alves Costa she started Laranja Azul in 2000, an independent production company for creative documentary and visual arts in Lisbon where she has directed many awarded films screened in different

international festivals. In 2016 she obtained her PhD Diploma in Film by the University of Edinburgh. Her PhD film A Toca do Lobo (The Wolf’s Lair) was released theatrically all over Portugal and premiered at Rotterdam Int. Film Festival. Her main areas of research are creative documentary; realism; memory, dream and archives. She is currently teaching film at the MA of Arts and Multimedia at Lisbon’s Fine Art School (FBAUL).

Selected Filmography[2019] O Mar Enrola na Areia (short); [2015] A Toca do Lobo; [2010] Pelas Sombras; [2004] Malmequer, O Diário de uma Encomenda; [2002] Desassossego; [1998] A Dama de Chandor; [1997] Fora de Água (short); [1994] Mecca Before I Die (short)

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Past PerfectJorge Jácome

Many cities or countries have a distinct malaise. They are places that could be Portugal, so sunk in a painful longing of the past, and where each tension of the present is only the tip of an iceberg that is explained in successive retreats that can go straight until origin of the species, at least.This feeling common to many latitudes is often presented as a diagnosis, a denial of a painful present as opposed to the desire to return to a glorious past.

Experimental, Fiction, Documentary, 2019, Portugal, 23’Script: Jorge Jácome, Pedro PenimCinematography: Jorge Jácome, Marta SimõesSound: Shugo Tekina, António Porém PiresEditing: Jorge JácomeProduction: Jorge Jácome

Bio-filmographyJorge Jácome (1988) is a filmmaker, graduated from Lisbon Theatre and Film School (ESTC), in Lisbon, and Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains, in Tourcoing. In his works he investigates relations between utopias, melancholy, disappearance and

desire. His films have been shown in several festivals (Toronto, San Sebastian, NYFF, 25 FPS, Images, Winterthur, IndieLisboa, Curtas – Vila do Conde, Premiers Plans d’Angers, Côté Court, EMAF - Osnabrück, BIEFF, among others) and in exhibition contexts in Palais de Tokyo, in La Maison Européenne de la Photographie, and Tabakalera. Parallel to his work as a filmmaker he regularly colaborates in performing arts projects.

[2019] Past Perfect (short); [2017] Flores (short); [2016] Fiesta Forever (short); [2015] A GUEST + A HOST = A GHOST (short); [2013] Plutão (short)

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3 Anos Depois3 Years LaterMarco Amaral

A woman returns.As night falls, a storm’s coming.

Fiction, 2018, Portugal, 12’Script: Marco AmaralCinematography: Carlos LopesSound: Miguel MartinsEditing: Marco Amaral, João BrazProduction: Pandora da Cunha Telles/ Ukbar FilmesCast: Ana Moreira, Custódia Gallego, Francisco Soares

Bio-filmographyBorn in the interior of Portugal in 1984, Marco Amaral went to an art school and a film school. Since 2011 he has been dedicated to color grading for cinema, having signed more than 100 films, which premiered in the biggest festivals around the world. In 2016 he cofounded

Walla Collective - a post-production collective based in Lisbon. As a director, he made two short films. The last one Autumn was shown in several festivals in the last years.

[2018] 3 Anos Depois (short); [2014] Outono (short)

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Sombra LuminosaLuminous ShadowMariana Caló, Francisco Queimadela

Luminous Shadow is born of an artistic residency process developed in proximity with the collection and the curatorial prism of the International Arts Center José de Guimarães.Through the manipulation of images and sounds from exhibitions, catalogs and conversations, that took place in the Center’s space, an experimental and mediumistic language is assembled, seeking to establish a recombination of times, contexts and origins.

Documentary, Experimental, 2018, Portugal, 22’Script: Mariana Caló, Francisco QueimadelaCinematography: Mariana Caló, Francisco QueimadelaSound Editor: Pedro André, Pedro AugustoEditing: Mariana Caló, Francisco QueimadelaProduction: Mariana Caló, Francisco Queimadela

Bio-filmographyMariana Caló (1984) and Francisco Queimadela (1985) began their sharing and collaboration during their studies at the Fine Arts Academy in Porto and have been working as an artist duo since 2010. Their practice is developed with a privileged use of moving images, which intersects installative and site-

specific environments, and also drawing, painting, photography and sculpture.Recent exhibitions include Alfabeto Analfabeto (Monitor Lisbon, 2018), Exposição - Índice (Arquipélago, 2018), 10 anos/10 artistas/10 Comissões (Chiado 8, 2018), A Trama e o Círculo (Museu da Imagem de Braga, 2017), O Livro da Sede (Museu de Serralves, 2016), Habitantes de Habitantes ( Kunsthalle Lissabon, 2016). They regularly take part in various showcases and festivals, such as: IndieLisboa (2018/ 2015), ICA - Filadélfia (2017), Art of the Real (2016), IFFR (2016), Underdox (2015), FID Marseille (2015)

[2018] Sombra Luminosa (short); [2014] A Trama e o Círculo (short)

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Bostofrio, où le ciel rejoint la terrePaulo Carneiro

In a remote village in Portugal, a young filmmaker breaks the law of silence in order to unearth the story of his grandparents.

Documentary, 2018, Portugal, 70’Script: Paulo CarneiroCinematography: Pedro NevesSound: Ricardo LealEditing: André Valentim Almeida, Francisco Moreira, Paulo CarneiroProduction: Paulo CarneiroCast: Casemira, Ti Maria, Lucília, Octávio, Ti Saúl, Maria Vergínia, Manuel Espada, Albertina, Domingos, Ana, Rosa, Salvador, Nair, Rancho Folclórico de Beça

Bio-filmographyPaulo Carneiro, born in 1990, Lisbon, Portugal. Graduated in Sound and Image at ESAD.CR. Student of master in Lisbon Theatre and Film School (ESTC).

He has attended several workshops of sound and direction with: Jean Paul Mugel, Joaquim Pinto, Chris Price, Zilnik, Albert Serra, Ujica... Works since 2011 in direction and editing with João Viana, Edgar Feldman, Bénard da Costa, Manuel Mozos and Rob Rombout. His first experience, Water to Tabatô, was premiered at Jihlava IDFF.

[2018] Bostofrio, où le ciel rejoint la terre; [2014] Água para Tabatô (short)

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Sombras de Nós PrópriosShadows of OurselvesPedro Serrazina

Inspired by the prayers of the Crypto-Jews from the North of Portugal and the use they made of sand, spreading it over the floor of their homes to muffle the sound of rituals forbidden by the Inquisition, this short film aims to illustrate the feeling of instability and insecurity suffered by all those who still need to live their life secretly, under the constant threat of being denounced.

Animation, 2019, Portugal, 8’Script: Pedro SerrazinaCinematography: Pedro SerrazinaAnimation: Isabel AlvesSound design: Fernando MotaEditing: Carlos SoaresProduction: Modo Imago

Bio-filmographyPedro Serrazina is an award-winning animation director, lecturer and researcher at Universidade Lusófona, Lisboa. His prize-winning short films include The Tale About the Cat and the Moon which, 30 years after being screened at Cannes, continues to be in circulation and is included in the curricula of many animation courses.Serrazina’s work ranges from internationally screened short films and site-specific animation/installations, to

music videos, workshops and academic projects. He is interested in the interconnections between architecture, public space and animation. Starting his research at MA level at the Royal College of Art, London (funded by the Gulbenkian foundation), he completed his PhD degree with a thesis on “Animated Space and the use of hand-drawn animation as a tool to perceive individual, social and cultural ownership” (funded by FCT).

[2019] Sombras de Nós Próprios (short); [2016] É Preciso que Eu Diminua (short); [2010] Os Olhos do Farol (short); [2001] Canção Distante (short); [1998] Within (short); [1997] Falling Star (short); [1997] One Minute About My Life; [1996] Gatophone (short); [1996] Ciclo Vicioso (short); [1995] Estória do Gato e da Lua (short)

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In Hindu mythology, RAHU is the severed head of a demon responsible for swallowing the sun and causing the eclipses.It is also Alex Zhang Hungtai, David Maranha, Gabriel Ferrandini, Júlia Reis and Pedro Sousa, all five in the dark, in circle, vociferating to each other, with their arms, their feet, their nerves, a growing, raw tension, without term, sipping restlessness through a testimony of the exploratory music in contemporary Lisbon.

BARULHO, ECLIPSEUPROAR, ECLIPSEIco Costa

Documentary, 2017, Portugal, 68’Script: Ico CostaCinematography: Olhos[<<Ä>>]ZumbirSound: Cristiano NunesEditing: Ico CostaProduction: Terratreme FilmesCast: Alex Zhang Hungtai, David Maranha, Gabriel Ferrandini, Júlia Reis, Pedro Sousa

FEATURE 2018

Shot in Italian Piemonte with the family of the italian filmmaker Tonino De Bernardi. A film about transmission between generations, about their love, their respect for life and art, and each other.

O TERMÓMETRO DE GALILEUGALILEO’S THERMOMETERTeresa Villaverde

Documentary, 2018, Portugal, 105’Script: Teresa VillaverdeCinematography: Teresa VillaverdeSound: Teresa VillaverdeEditing: Teresa VillaverdeProduction: Teresa Villaverde / Alce FilmesCast: Tonino De Bernardi, Mariella Navale

FEATURE 2018

A 4th grade class without a teacher, a contract signing with a giant football club and a New Year’s Eve party. Three tales tinged with aspiration and the desire to escape express a look into a youth absorbed by the power of dreams and the harshness of reality. A generation facing growth, in tension with the future.

MIRAGEM MEUS PUTOSMIRAGE MY BROSDiogo Baldaia

Fiction, 2017, Portugal, 24’ Script: Diogo BaldaiaCinematography: Leonardo SimõesSound: Nuno HenriqueEditing: Diogo BaldaiaProduction: Diogo Baldaia, Maura Carneiro, Manuel Rocha da Silva / Areosa FilmesCast: Pedro Caeiro, Luís Maza, João Marcelo, Ricardo Alves, Maura Carneiro, Duarte Águas

SHORT 2018

Fernão Mendes Pinto worked on his book for nine years in the 1570s, but it was only published posthumously in the 1614. ‘The Travels of Mendes Pinto’ is an unparalleled story and account of one of the greatest adventures ever lived. Based on book excerpts as well as true, verified events although others were only possibly experienced by this adventurer and writer throughout his life and work (as John Ford once exclaimed, ‘When the legend becomes fact, print the legend’), I present a literary adventure story and a musical epic poem. (João Botelho)

PEREGRINAÇÃOPILGRIMAGEJoão Botelho

Fiction, 2018, Portugal, 105’Script: João BotelhoCinematography: Luís BranquinhoSound: Francisco VelosoEditing: João BrazProduction: Alexandre Oliveira / Ar de FilmesCast: Cláudio da Silva, Catarina Wallenstein, Cassiano Carneiro, Jani Zhao, Pedro Inês

FEATURE 2018

It’s summer, a boy and his friends go to the river. On the ride there, a story is told about a man and his pet snake that tried to eat him. The boy falls from a tree trunk and gets hurt. A girl follows him. A couple kiss each other, another boy explores the woods and a third one just lays by a tree eating a peach. In four chapters, the heat and the humidity of the forest unravel desires among them.

“The Russian lady and I used to cross each other every day at 6 a.m., as every day she used to ride her bicycle to work. But that day she was on foot. The neighbor’s dogs were barking... barking and barking...”“To me, the body looked more of a sheep. I’ve seen dead bodies but that wasn’t a dead person to me.”A report by two witnesses of a hideous crime committed in an idyllic landscape. The victim was a foreigner named Vira Chudnenko.

ONDE O VERÃO VAI (EPISÓDIOS DA JUVENTUDE) / WHERE THE SUMMER GOES (CHAPTERS ON YOUTH)David Pinheiro Vicente

VIRA CHUDNENKOInês Oliveira

Fiction, 2018, Portugal, 21’Script: Rita Jorge, David Pinheiro VicenteCinematography: Joana Silva FernandesSound: Miguel CoelhoEditing: Laura Gama MartinsProduction: Raquel Rolim Batista / Lisbon Theatre and Film School (ESTC)Cast: Miguel Amorim, Joana Peres, Rodrigo Tomás, Joana Petiz, André Simões, Rodolfo Major

Documentary, 2017, Portugal, 31’Script: Inês Oliveira based on the reports of Amélia Dias, Lina GomesCinematography: Inês Oliveira, Paulo MenezesSound: Hugo LeitãoEditing: Rui Mourão, Inês OliveiraProduction: Isabel Machado, Joana Ferreira/ C.R.I.MCast: Alevtina Pugatch

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One night, a group of workers realizes that the administration is stealing machines and raw materials from their own factory. As they organize to survey the equipment and block the relocation of the production, they are forced to stand in their posts with no work to be done, as a form of retaliation, while the negotiations for a general lay off go on.

Marta and Jorge have been together for seven years. Everyone thinks they are a perfect couple. Too perfect, to everyone’s despair: to Bruno, much younger than Marta, but madly in love with her; to Lígia, Bruno’s sister and Marta’s best friend, who would love to see her brother happy; to Carlos, friend of Jorge, who secretly loves Marta; and to Jorge who believes this love is becoming his prison.

A FÁBRICA DE NADATHE NOTHING FACTORYPedro Pinho

AMOR AMORJorge Cramez

Fiction, 2017, Portugal, 107’Script: Edmundo Cordeiro, Jorge Cramez, Tiago do Carmo VazCinematography: João RibeiroSound: António Pedro Figueiredo (Copi), Ricardo LealEditing: José RitoProduction: Joana Ferreira, Isabel Machado/ C.R.I.M.Cast: Jaime Freitas, Ana Moreira, Margarida Vila-Nova, Nuno Casanovas, Guilherme Moura, Joana de Verona, Maya Booth, Eduardo Frazão

Fiction, 2017, Portugal, 176’Script: Pedro Pinho, Luísa Homem, Leonor Noivo, Tiago Hespanha (based on an original idea by Jorge Silva Melo)Cinematography: Vasco VianaSound: João GazuaEditing: Cláudia Oliveira, Edgar Feldman, Luísa HomemMusic: José Smith Vargas, Pedro RodriguesProduction: João Matos, Susana Nobre / Terratreme FilmesCast: José Smith Vargas, Carla Galvão, Njamy Sebastião, J. Bichana Martins, Daniele Incalcaterra, Hermínio Amaro

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A mother doubles up jobs to pay the bills since her husband is unemployed. Their teenage daughter tries to keep living her everyday life even if the money’s running short and makes everything uneasy. Escaping their common reality, they slowly become strangers to one another, as the tension grows in silence and in guilt.

How many members of a family get dragged into the web of the political police on the arrest of a single political prisoner? Taking as its starting point the photographs by the Portuguese political police (1926-1974), the film seeks to reveal how an authoritarian system operates within the family intimacy, simultaneously revealing areas of repression which mould the present.

COLOTeresa Villaverde

LUZ OBSCURAOBSCURE LIGHTSusana de Sousa Dias

Documentary, 2017, Portugal, 77’Script: Susana de Sousa DiasCinematography: João RibeiroSound: Armanda CarvalhoEditing: Susana de Sousa DiasProduction: Ansgar Schaefer / Kintop

Fiction, 2017, Portugal, France, 136’Script: Teresa VillaverdeCinematography: Acácio de AlmeidaSound: Vasco Pimentel, Joel Rangon, Marine PapinotEditing: Rodolphe Molla Production: Teresa Villaverde / Alce Filmes; Cécile Vacheret / Sedna FilmsCast: João Pedro Vaz, Alice Albergaria Borges, Beatriz Batarda, Clara Jost, Tomás Gomes, Dinis Gomes, Ricardo Aibéo, Simone de Oliveira, Rita Blanco


In the end of the 19th century peasants in Portugal started a courageous struggle for better work conditions. After generations of starving misery, the Carnation Revolution sowed the promise of an Agrarian Reform. The protagonists of this film, resistants of this struggle, many illiterate, working from childhood, tell the story in their own words.

In a natural crisis scenario, the entire population of Azores is forced to evict due to an uncontrolled plague of hydrangeas, a common flower in these islands.Two young soldiers, bound to the beauty of the landscape, guide us to the stories of sadness of those forced to leave and the inherent desire to resist by inhabiting the islands.

FARPÕES BALDIOSBARBS, WASTELANDSMarta Mateus

FLORESJorge Jácome

Fiction, 2017, Portugal, 26’Script: Jorge Jácome, David CabecinhaCinematography: Marta SimõesSound: Marco Leão Music: Terry RileyEditing: Jorge JácomeProduction: João Figueiras / Blackmaria Cast: André Andrade, Pedro Rosa, Gabriel Desplanque, Jorge Jácome

Fiction, Documentary, 2017, Portugal, 25’Script: Marta MateusSound: Olivier Blanc, Hugo LeitãoEditing: Marta MateusProduction: Joana Ferreira, Isabel Machado/ C.R.I.M.Co-production: Abel Ribeiro Chaves / OPTECCast: Maria Clara Madeira, Gonçalo Prudêncio, Maria Catarina Sapata, José Codices, Francisco Barbeiro, Lúcia Canhoto, Mariana Nunes, Tatiana Prudêncio, João Neves, António Prudêncio, Rodrigo Rosas, Tobias Liliu, Joaquim Prudêncio, Augusto Frade, Paula Pelado


Pedro occupies a bankrupt shopping center, where he lives haunted by his lack of future. The temporary stay of a new girl in the town is going to change his condition.

Lemon tree is a film about a fictional character whose body is assembled from memories embedded in an abandoned space.

HEROÍSMOHelena Estrela Vasconcelos

LIMOEIROLEMON TREEJoana Silva

Animation, 2016, UK, Portugal, 5’Script: Joana Silva Cinematography: Joana Silva Sound: Alice de Barrau, Mike Wyeld Editing: Tim Webb, Joana SilvaProduction: Royal College of Art

Fiction, 2016, Portugal, 22’Script: Helena Estrela Vasconcelos Cinematography: Afonso GaudêncioSound: Bernardo Theriaga, Diogo Caetano, Francisco CostaEditing: Bruno de Freitas LealProduction: Bernardo Theriaga, Kate Saragaço-Gomes / Lisbon Theatre and Film School (ESTC) Cast: Guilherme Moura, Rodrigo Tomás, Martim Guerreiro


Inhambane. Mozambique. King-Best. Samsung Galaxy. Versace. Babes. White rooster. There are no toothpicks in Norway. Coconut trees. Baobab fruits. Superfruits. Vitamine C. Passiflorine. Alpha-linolenic acid. SMS in Chinese. Megabytes. Hotel Cardoso. Coffee is a white man’s addiction. Ngadzango. My woman. Nafta.

A courtroom is a theatre and a death may be staged. Two policemen are accused in a court of law of the unlawful murder of J. J’s mother is questioned by the police officers’ defense attorney, to determine who her son was: was he really who he is said to have been? Found beside his body is a gun and drugs.

NYO VWETA NAFTAIco Costa

O CASO J.THE CASE OF J.José Filipe Costa

Fiction, Documentary, 2017, Portugal, Brazil, 20’Script: José Filipe Costa Cinematography: Vasco VianaSound: Rúben CostaEditing: Francisco MoreiraProduction: Filipa Reis, João Miller Guerra / Uma Pedra no SapatoCo-production: Daniela Santos, Eduardo Ades, João Felipe Freitas / ImagemTempoCast: Graziella Moretto, Eduardo Gaspar, António Terra, Lília Trajano, Augusto Madeira, Marcello Melo, Marcelo Gonçalves, Lucas Sadalla

Fiction, 2017, Portugal, Mozambique, 21’Script: Ico CostaCinematography: Hugo Azevedo Sound: Roland Pickl, Tiago MatosMusic: Puto ZacaEditing: Ico Costa, Eduardo WilliamsProduction: Ico Costa /Terratreme Filmes Cast: Zacarias Covela, Domingos Marengula, Édio Peleve, Belton Guilade, King Best, Mimórcia Nhantumbo, Vivaldo Zandamela, Hélder Tinga, Big John, Carlos Hernandez


In love with Trás-os-Montes and with his Guide of Portugal as a source of inspiration, Miguel looks for stories for his new documentary. One day, the appearance of a man riding a donkey changes his future.

A young room attendant sneaks for a night into the suite of a guest who’s coming back to the hotel only on the following day.

O HOMEM DE TRÁS-OS-MONTESBEYOND THE MOUNTAINSMiguel Moraes Cabral

O TURNO DA NOITETHE NIGHT SHIFTHugo Pedro

Fiction, 2017, Portugal, 22’Script: Hugo PedroCinematography: Lisa PerssonSound: Francisco VelosoEditing: Lúcia PiresMusic: Gabriel Ferrandini, Pedro SousaProduction: Paulo Branco / Leopardo Filmes; República FilmesCast: Filipa Matta, Fanny Ardant, Tónan Quito, Ana Tang, Guilherme Gomes

Fiction, 2017, Portugal, 29’Script: Miguel Moraes Cabral Cinematography: Iván CastiñeirasSound: Raquel JacintoMusic: Carlos Guerreiro Editing: Francisco Moreira Production: Hemi Fortes, Carlos Isaac, Bruno Moraes Cabral / Garden FilmsCast: Miguel Nunes, João Pedro Bénard, Beatriz Brás, Sérgio Coragem, Isac Graça


A film about humor, anthropology and artificial intelligence, focusing on how humor is central to human relationships. Blending a certain Hollywood aesthetic with documentary approaches, the film tells the story of an indigenous girl who falls in love with a robot that is a rising stand up comedian in Brazil

On December 1st, 2015, in front of the restaurant Le Petit Cambodje, officials from the Paris City Council collect the flowers paying tribute to the victims of the November 13th attack.

OS HUMORES ARTIFICIAISTHE ARTIFICIAL HUMORSGabriel Abrantes

PARIS 15/16Teresa Villaverde

Documentary, 2016, Portugal, 6’ Editing: Clara Jost Production: Alce Filmes

Fiction, 2017, Portugal, 29’Script: Gabriel AbrantesCinematography: Jorge QuintelaSound: Marcel Costa, Carlos AbreuEditing: Margarida LucasProduction: Herma Films; Fundação de Serralves; Bienal de São Paulo; Colección InelcomCast: Margarida Lucas, Amanda Rodarte, Gilda Nomacce, Ivo Müller, Jeann Segundo, Mateus Rolim Rodrigues, Rafaela Rocha, Patrícia Soso


In an abandoned shopping center, Luís sees his best friend being assaulted. Incapable of facing it he runs away from the adolescent violence that haunts him while struggling against himself.

An old photograph taken 36 years ago. His hand rests on my shoulder. A blessing, a gift.Then a history of over four decades of friendship, admiration and apprenticeship. A journey into Oliveira’s cinema, his method, his way of filming and his extraordinary cinematographic inventions.

SEM ARMASBAREHANDEDTomás Paula Marques

O CINEMA, MANOEL DE OLIVEIRA E EU THE CINEMA, MANOEL DE OLIVEIRA AND MEJoão Botelho

Documentary, Fiction, 2016, Portugal, 80’Cinematography: João RibeiroSound: João EleutérioEditing: João BrazMusic: Nicholas McNairProduction: Alexandre Oliveira / Ar de FilmesCast: Mariana Dias, Maria João Pinho, Miguel Nunes, Leonor Silveira

Fiction, 2016, Portugal, 15’Script: Tomás Paula MarquesCinematography: Manuel Pinho BragaSound: Pedro Henrique, Inês Adriana Editing: Bruno de Freitas Leal, Mário EspadaProduction: Bruno de Freitas Leal / Miramar Filmes, Lisbon Theatre and Film School (ESTC) Cast: Guilherme Moura, Rodrigo Tomás, Martim Guerreiro

SHORT 2017 FEATURE 2016

Present, past and future merge in the wagons of a train that crosses Eastern Europe in the XXI century: Poland, Russia, Ukraine. The slogan of the post-war «Never Again» sounds now like a fairy tale.Everything is happening again. Everywhere.

At dawn a group of peasants tries to rescue the body of a young man from the inside of a well. Women veil their faces in silence while men endure the situation. In the center of it all, a mother awaits her son’s salvation.The wait is over. The boy’s body emerges from the depths of the earth. How can life come to an end if everything in nature is eternally reborn? In the distance the sun floods the horizon. A new day lies ahead.

TREBLINKASérgio Tréfaut

ASCENSÃOASCENSIONPedro Peralta

Fiction, 2016, Portugal, 18’Script: Pedro PeraltaCinematography: João RibeiroSound: Ricardo Leal, Miguel MartinsEditing: Francisco MoreiraProduction: João Matos / Terratreme Filmes Cast: Domicília Nunes, Ricardo Francisco, Alice Calçada, António Pote, António Eusébio, Daniela Toito, Fábio Leiria, João Paulo, José Manuel, Leonel Pirralha, Manuela Domingos, Marlene Monteiro, Susana Monteiro, Vitalina Ferreira

Fiction, 2016, Portugal, 61’ Script: Sérgio Tréfaut – based on excerpts from the book «I am the last Jew» by Chil RajchmanCinematography: João RibeiroSound: Miguel Moraes CabralMusic: Alfredo Costa MonteiroEditing: Pedro MarquesProduction: Sérgio Tréfaut, Catarina Almeida / FauxCast: Isabel Ruth, Kirill Kashlikov

FEATURE 2016 SHORT 2016

“Simultaneously strange and familiar, distant and near, disquieting and seductive, outsider and cosmopolitan, Gypsies are shrouded in an aura of ambiguity. They cannot be said to be invisible, as they hardly go unnoticed.” (Daniel Seabra Lopes) Like the Gypsies, the frogs, made of china, don’t go unnoticed to a careful observer. “Batrachian’s Ballad” comes about in a context of ambiguity. A film that immerses itself in the reality of Portuguese everyday life, as a form of fabling about a xenophobic behaviour.

In a small Portuguese village, a tragedy occured. An old lady is found dead by her pool, full of snakes, while her 40 year-old daughter Lurdes fled without telling anyone. The gossips in town about the mysterious destiny of this house are spreading fast.

BALADA DE UM BATRÁQUIOBATRACHIAN’S BALLADLeonor Teles

CAMPO DE VÍBORAS Cristèle Alves Meira

Fiction, 2016, France, Portugal, 19’Script: Cristèle Alves Meira, Nuno CamarneiroCinematography: Rui PoçasSound: Amaury Arboun, Vincent Pateau, Cédric LionnetArtistic direction: Julien MichelEditing: Raphaël LefèvreProduction: Gaëlle Mareschi/ Fluxus Films; Pandora da Cunha Telles, Pablo Iraola / Ukbar FilmesCast: Ana Padrão, Sónia Martins, Simão Cayatte, Ludovic Berthillot, Jacqueline Corado

Documentary, 2016, Portugal, 11’Script: Leonor TelesCinematography: Leonor Teles, Ico CostaSound: Bernado Theriaga, Joana Niza BragaEditing: Leonor TelesProduction: Filipa Reis, João Miller Guerra / Uma Pedra no Sapato


In Lisbon, Claudia offers guided tours in and out of the city. At night, she kills time with her sister in a modest apartment. In Lisbon, lonesome Martinho is fluent in Italian and guide tourists all around town. At night, he watches documentaries on the internet and reads about astronomy. In Lisbon, a band is jamming. They perform improvisational noise jazz. In Lisbon, a mysterious phenomenon fills the air. Claudia and Martinho’s lonely hearts will discreetly meet to the sound of music.

With the help of the most consacrated neuroscientists, “Herner Werzog” travels inside the brain of artists and filmmakers from all over the world and documents their dreams. In Lisbon (Portugal), young director Gabriel Abrantes will be the victim.

EXCURSÕESEXCURSIONSDenis Côté

FREUD UND FRIENDSGabriel Abrantes

Fiction, 2015, Portugal, Switzerland, 23’Script: Gabriel Abrantes, David Phelps Cinematography: Jorge Quintela Sound: Rafael Cardoso Music: Norberto Lobo Editing: Margarida Lucas Production: IndieLisboa, Gabriel AbrantesCo-Production: Centre d’Art Contemporain de GenèveCast: Carloto Cotta, Sónia Balacó, Filipa Anika, David Phelps, Cláudia Jardim, Joana Barrios, Natxo Checa, Norberto Lobo

Fiction, 2015, Portugal, Canada, 20’Script: Denis CôtéCinematography: André SantosSound: Marco LeãoSound Design: Frédéric CloutierMusic: Red TrioEditing: Nicolas RoyProduction: IndieLisboa – Associação CulturalCo-Production: Denis CôtéCast: Cláudia Leal, Martinho de Jesus, Joana de Verona, Patrícia Leal, Red Trio


A Chilean actress travels to Lisbon representing a film where she has a secondary role, regarding nobody else was available to go. In the Q&A in the Cinematheque she doesn t know how to answer the audience questions. The next day she had plans to meet the city, but ends up with a Portuguese stranger in an abandoned area on the other side of the river.

K just crashed his Mercedes-Benz into a tree, moments after trying to avoid running down a small wild animal that ran across his path. He is on a backwater road in the countryside and it’s a very dark night. His evening has only just begun...

LOS BARCOSDominga Sotomayor

MACABRE Jerónimo Rocha, João Miguel Real

Animation, 2015, Portugal, 19’Script: Jerónimo Rocha, João Miguel Real Director of Animation: João Miguel RealArt Director: Jerónimo RochaSound: Henrique Lima, Som de LisboaMusic: Filipe LopesEditing: Jerónimo Rocha Production: Frederico Serra / Take It Easy

Fiction, 2015, Portugal, Chile, 20’Script: Dominga SotomayorCinematography: Diogo Costa AmaranteSound: Rafael CardosoSound Design: Roberto Espinoza Editing: Felipe Galvez, Dominga SotomayorProduction: IndieLisboa – Associação CulturalCo-Production: CinestaciónCast: Francisca Castillo, João Canijo, Carloto Cotta


Mysterious portrait of Fernando, aka Deborah Krystal, the glittering and poetic performer of the Lisbon club Finalmente, where he has been performing every night over 30 years in golden dresses. Under the layers of his colorful fabrics, the many skins of Fernando are revealed, letting Lisbon’s legends come to life. Alternately woman mermaid, female birds, woman lion, we are taken into the desires and dreams of metamorphosis and myths.

Pedro is a family drama, shot in the suburbs of Lisbon, in which we follow a motorcyclist teenage boy and his middle aged lonely mother, on a beach day in the last days of summer. The film is built around their expectations on intimacy and desire but mostly focused in the ambiguity of human relationships.

O PÁSSARO DA NOITEL’OISEAU DE LA NUITMarie Losier

PEDRO André Santos, Marco Leão

Fiction, 2016, Portugal, 20’Script: André Santos, Marco LeãoCinematography: Hugo AzevedoSound: Marco Leão, Pedro Góis, Tiago Matos Music: Bruno CardosoEditing: André Santos, Marco LeãoProduction: João Figueiras, Lydie Barbara, Rodrigo Candeias, Cláudia Lomba / BlackmariaCast: Filipe Abreu, Rita Durão, João Villas-Boas, Marcello Urgeghe

Fiction, 2015, Portugal, France, 20’Script: Marie LosierCinematography: Marie Losier, Rui XavierSound: Miguel CabralMusic: Alan VegaEditing: Marie Losier, Catherine LibertProduction: IndieLisboa – Associação CulturalCo-Production: Marie LosierCast: Fernando Santos/Deborah Krystal, Cindy Scrash, Alda Cabrita, João Pedro Rodrigues, João Rui Guerra da Mata, Simon Damour, Carlos Conceição, Bernardo Lacerda, Antoine Barraud, Didier D Abreu, Pedro Pereira, Eduardo Moreira


In this delirious sci-fi riff off of the Arabian Nights’ Tale of the Hunchback, Rivers and Abrantes submerge us in a technological dystopia reigned by Dalaya.com, a mega-corporation that forces it’s employees to ‘relax’ at company-run medieval reenactments.

In the mid 1950’s my grandfather was committed to a psychiatric hospital, my uncle became a political prisoner, and my mother at age 11 was sent to a boarding school. Since then she hardly saw her father and brother. Today my aunt owns the family house where some of the secrets might be kept, but my mother hasn’t gone back since my grandfather died in 1970. In this film I want to unravel the secrets and mysteries of my Portuguese family during dictatorship. The cloud of Salazar’s regime is dissipating 38 years after the Revolution of 1974. Families can now make sense of their past, reinterpret old memories and discover new truths.

O CORCUNDATHE HUNCHBACKGabriel Abrantes, Ben Rivers

A TOCA DO LOBOTHE WOLF’S LAIRCatarina Mourão

Documentary, Fiction, 2015, Portugal, 102’Script: Catarina MourãoCinematography: João Ribeiro, Catarina MourãoSound: Armanda CarvalhoMusic: Bruno PernadasEditing: Pedro Duarte, Catarina MourãoProduction: Maria Ribeiro Soares / Laranja Azul

Fiction, 2015, Portugal, France, 29’Script: Gabriel Abrantes, Ben RiversCinematography: Jorge Quintela Sound: Pedro Melo Editing: Margarida Lucas Production: Natxo Checa, Marta Furtado, Gabriel Abrantes / A Mutual Respect Productions; Justin Taurand / Les Films Du BélierCast: Carloto Cotta, Gustavo Sumpta, Anton Skrzypiciel, Norman Maccallum, Mariana Mourato, Randolph Albright, Celia Williams, Elizabeth Bochmann, Pedro Alfacinha, Jonathan Weightman, Maya Booth, Francisca Duarte, Lucas Hawkey, Njamy Uolo, William Hawkey, Sofia Sousa

SHORT 2016 FEATURE 2015

Welcome to Lisbon: there are mermaids by the Tagus and birds flying over the old city; there are mad scientists and singing fish; lost tourist guides and lost tourists; fado and sad guitars. What a weird city you may think - but no. Lisbon is about being different, sarcastic, welcoming to foreigners even in an economic crisis. Different directors became fascinated by our strangeness. We became fascinated by these directors. The city is never the same in these four episodes, here in Lisbon.

A woman decides to film her visits to her grandmother. In the quiet home, the camera captures the unique relation between these two women 50 years apart. With days passing by, the lines between film and life increasingly become blurred. It all started with the urge to film a very intimate and close reality before time changes it forever: my relationship with my grandmother. We are told we have a similar nature, despite 50 years between us. I go to her home alone and soon I discover I cannot hide behind the camera, as I was used to. I have to inhabit the house and the frame as well as her. Now we are together to experience life and film. Is she ready? Am I?

AQUI, EM LISBOAHERE IN LISBONDenis Côté, Dominga Sotomayor, Gabriel Abrantes, Marie Losier

GIPSOFILAGYPSOPHILAMargarida Leitão

Documentary, 2015, Portugal, 61’Script: Margarida LeitãoCinematography: Margarida LeitãoSound: Margarida LeitãoEditing: Margarida Leitão, João BrazProduction: Margarida LeitãoCast: Lourdes Albuquerque, Margarida Leitão

Fiction, 2015, Portugal, Canada, Chile, France, Switzerland, 90’Script: Denis Côté, Dominga Sotomayor, Gabriel Abrantes, Marie LosierCinematography: André Santos, Diogo Costa Amarante, Jorge Quintela, Rui XavierSound: Marco Leão, Rafael Cardoso, Miguel CabralProduction: IndieLisboa - Associação Cultural Co-Production: Denis Côté, Dominga Sotomayor, Gabriel Abrantes, Marie Losier Cast: Francisca Castillo, João Canijo, Carloto Cotta, Sónia Balacó, Fernando Santos/Deborah Krystall, Cláudia Leal, Martinho de Jesus, Joana de Verona


The story of a family seeking harmony, seen by a twelve-year-old boy. It is through the eyes of André that we see a family torn apart by circumstances. After a difficult process of divorce, António, the father, gets custody of his four young children until the mother declares that the youngest child is not his son. The mother disappears. The father refuses to do a paternity test since it won’t change anything. André starts to understand that he has to be in an adult world faster than what is usually asked of a kid. He is the team’s captain, a promising football player but a helpless spectator of what is going on around him. So André plays with all his anger to free himself. His redemption is trying to bring the younger brother back home.

While a teenage boy learns how to drive, a woman walks her elder canine through the woods. As the afternoon goes by she soon realizes that it’s not too late to take action.“Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for the others. And having no respect he ceases to love.” F. Dostoyevsky

OS OLHOS DE ANDRÉ ANDRÉ’S EYESAntónio Borges Correia

AULA DE CONDUÇÃODRIVING LESSONAndré Santos, Marco Leão

Fiction, 2015, Portugal, 17’Script: André Santos, Marco LeãoCinematography: André SantosSound: Marco LeãoEditing: André Santos, Marco LeãoProduction: João Figueiras / BlackmariaCast: Maria João Pinho, João Soares dos Reis, AnaïsFiction, Documentary, 2015, Portugal, 65’

Script: António Borges CorreiaCinematography: Miguel RobaloSound: Marcos CosmosEditing: Tomás BaltazarProduction: João Figueiras / BlackmariaCast: André Morais, Diogo Morais, António Morais, Francisco Morais, Laurinda Neto

FEATURE 2015 SHORT 2015

Three friends are at the beach. It is the last day of summer, the moon is rising. One of them decides to hold his breath until the moon appears completely on the horizon.

The tow truck driver gives a ride to a young driver, who s just escaped uninjured from his yellow sports car being taken to the junkyard. In the hush of the dawn the tow truck driver keeps on talking and talking. The freeway is his battlefield. While the car driver remains silent in shock the tow truck driver speaks up against the silence of the world.

DESPEDIDAFAREWELLTiago Rosa-Rosso

O REBOCADORTOW TRUCK DRIVERJorge Cramez

Fiction, 2015, Portugal, 16’Script: Edmundo CordeiroCinematography: Inês CarvalhoSound: Pedro Figueiredo, Miguel MartinsEditing: Jaime FreitasProduction: Joana Ferreira, Isabel Machado/ C.R.I.M.Cast: Adriano Luz, Jaime Freitas

Fiction, 2015, Portugal, 14’Script: António Dente, Miguel Plantier, Zé BernardinoCinematography: Tiago Rosa-RossoProduction: Tiago Rosa-Rosso, Colectivo Pé-de-LeãoCast: António Dente, Miguel Plantier, Zé Bernardino


“Beside the savage desire within him to realise the enormities which he brooded on nothing was sacred.”James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

Sara moved to London to find a job in graphic design but she’s stuck in a restaurant kitchen. Today, after one more rejection, the reality of her life sinks in. Torn between what’s been left behind in Portugal and the possibility of a better future, Sara finds herself on the edge of change.

OUTUBRO ACABOUOCTOBER IS OVERKaren Akerman, Miguel Seabra Lopes

SWALLOWS Sofia Bost

Fiction, 2015, Portugal, UK, 15’ Script: Sofia Bost Cinematography: Tian TseringSound: Francesco CorazziEditing: Pedro Jorge Production: Sofia BostCo-production: London Film School, CrosscutCast: Teresa Tavares, Pedro Caeiro, Stefano Fregni, Jeremiah Waysome, Monika Miles

Fiction, Documentary, Experimental, 2015, Brazil, Portugal, 24’Script: Karen Akerman, Miguel Seabra LopesCinematography: Paulo MenezesSound: Ives Rosenfeld, Bernardo Uzeda, Ricardo CutzEditing: Karen Akerman, Miguel Seabra LopesProduction: Karen Akerman, Miguel Seabra Lopes; Alessandra Castañeda/ Pela Madrugada; João Matos/ Terratreme FilmesCast: António Akerman Seabra, Karen Akerman, Miguel Seabra Lopes


It all started with a picture taken in 1974 in Lisbon, just after the Portuguese Revolution. She, the Revolution Hunter, tries to enter in that picture as if she could enter into a time she didn’t belong to and finally understand what it means to be part of a revolution or what it means to fight for a country. A Caça Revoluções is a film that explores the relationship between two generations, two different times and two different fights. As if we could transform a photograph by drawing on it. As if we could transform the present by drawing over the past.

Over the course of several months, Mariana Caló and Francisco Queimadela collected visual testimonies of various labour and ludic activities and other daily practices rooted in empirical knowledge. Establishing intuitive relations between concrete gestures and substances, sensorial experiences and analogical thinking, the authors have created a fragmentary film immersed on the idea of transformation of matter, generating a revolving movement that metamorphoses itself over time.

A CAÇA REVOLUÇÕESTHE REVOLUTION HUNTERMargarida Rêgo

A TRAMA E O CÍRCULOTHE MESH AND THE CIRCLEMariana Caló, Francisco Queimadela

Documentary, Experimental, 2014, Portugal, Italy, 35’Script: Mariana Caló, Francisco QueimadelaCinematography: Mariana Caló, Francisco QueimadelaSound: Jonathan Saldanha Editing: Mariana Caló, Francisco QueimadelaProduction: Mariana Caló, Francisco Queimadela / Lo Schermo dell’Arte Film Festival

Documentary, Animation, Experimental, 2014, Portugal, UK, 11’Script: Margarida RêgoCinematography: Margarida RêgoEditing: Margarida RêgoSound: Mike WyeldProduction: Margarida Rêgo, Royal College of Art


“To come to a new through things that are not exactly new.” Manuel Castro Caldas“Ar.Co is a geography in each one of us, it flees from standardization. The experience is individual. This film is my, our experience. Based on the school’s archive, on recorded lessons by Manuel Castro Caldas and on homey talks.” (João Miller Guerra)

O INDISPENSÁVEL TREINO DA VAGUEZA /THE INDISPENSABLE PRACTICE OF VAGUENESSFilipa Reis, João Miller Guerra

Documentary, Experimental, 2014, Portugal, 45’Cinematography: Vasco VianaSound: Rúben CostaMusic: Victor RuaEditing: Tomás BaltazarProduction: Uma Pedra no Sapato

SHORT 2014

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